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Aviation

Aug 08 in Case study

Industry Sector: Aviation Location: Berkshire Challenges: Desktop hardware refresh Secure Remote working Meeting Room Teams Screen Backup and data retention Solutions: 1. Roll out of new Windows 11 computers Our client was running from aging computer with an operating system coming close to falling out of support with Microsoft. Protec audited the current computers, their ...

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Construction

Aug 08 in Case study

Industry Sector: Construction Location: Ascot, Berkshire Challenges: Hacking and ransomware (encrypted files) Weak site-to-site VPN tunnels Improved data retention required Solutions: 1. Resolve server wide ransomware infection Protec received a new enquiry from a business who had experienced a security breach via their main Terminal server (accounting and ordering platform). The hackers encrypted all files ...

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Childcare

Aug 08 in Case study

Industry Sector: Childcare Location: Ascot, Berkshire Challenges: Legacy Exchange Migration to Office 365 Domain Host Migration DNS / Web Protection Site wide WiFi installation Mobile device deployment Solutions: 1. Legacy Exchange Migration to Office 365 Protec advised our client regarding the advantages of migrating from their legacy Exchange 2016 email platform and leveraging the advantages ...

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Private Health Care

Aug 08 in Case study

Industry Sector: Private Health Care Location: Berkshire Challenges: On-Prem Windows server DR Backups Office 365 data and Exch migration Site wide WiFi infrastructure deployment Solutions: 1. On-Prem Windows Server DR Protec advised our client regarding their DR/BCP protection around their IT infrastructure. An additional server (DR server) was implemented to house a copy of the ...

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Large scale Timber architecture projects

Aug 08 in Case study

Industry Sector: Large scale Timber architecture projects Location: Wokingham, Berkshire Challenges: On-premise legacy Windows Active Directory Server On-premise legacy Exchange Server Data Migration to OneDrive/SharePoint Power outages/interruptions User End-Point Protection and Encryption Remote Access Solutions: 1. New Windows HyperV Server with Failover: Protec audited the current legacy on-premise Windows Server to confirm the services this ...

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Property Asset Management

Aug 07 in Case study

Industry Sector: Property Asset Management Location: London Challenges: Creation of business entity from parent company IT Infrastructure design and deployment for new office location Solutions: Data Migration and de-coupling: Protec worked with the parent company to scoped the current IT platforms, data requirements, licenses and security products and hardware. We developed a plan to migrate ...

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The Top 5 IT-Related Challenges For Businesses

Jun 28 in News

Not many things change as quickly as technology. The list of IT challenges to businesses shifts and changes constantly as technology evolves, making IT system management no easy task. Protec’s long-term experience with medium sized businesses has helped us to identify the most common and time-consuming challenges affecting these businesses. Clearly, there are many IT

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Disaster recovery and its importance to businesses

Jun 14 in News

The thought of data loss and corruption strikes fear into the hearts of many medium sized business owners. Such a disaster could be due to natural, human, or mechanical factors and can have a devastating effect on any business in addition to the data loss itself, including downtime, critical delivery interruptions and costly repairs. But

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Why Your Business Should Outsource Data Recovery

May 09 in News

Are you losing sleep over computer viruses, corrupt hard drives or accidentally hitting delete? Protecting data is one of the most important issues for businesses and, if something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing properly. Read on to find out why we think you should ask the experts…and get yourself a good night’s sleep. Why Your

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